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As Tom says, I was able to duplicate the issue with imap2soap.pl - it works quickly and well on my machine (connecting to a local IMAP box) but times out connecting to Gmail. Both Tom and I can connect to Gmail's IMAP via telnet from the machines that we're running imap2soap.pl on, using the same port / settings.

Any clues on why imap2soap would have trouble specifically with Gmail?

Anyone found a good workaround? Or have recommendations for other highly-available instant IMAP accounts?

I'm not sure what the problem is, but "imap2soap: Fatal: During the SOAP initialization" is certainly not very helpful.  I've just uploaded a new imap2soap.pl with better error message reporting to https://svn.civicactions.net/repos/civicrm/scripts/imap2soap.pl

Please try that and report the error message you receive - maybe we'll be able to debug it.

regarding the first line

there is a small bug introduced in the latest version on line 104 where $text needs to be in brackets otherwise the output is "1" rather than the actual message.

sub verbose
{
  my ($text) = @_;
  return if $opt{q};
  printf STDERR "imap2soap: $text\n";
}

(I've replaced the brackets arounf $text in verbose() - sorry about that!)

I was able to get my Google Apps account to work with imap2soap with a little extra code and a couple extra perl modules.  You'll need IO::Socket::SSL, which if I remember correctly also required Crypt::SSLeay and maybe something else (try just installing IO::Socket::SSL and it'll tell you what you need: perl -MCPAN -e "install IO::Socket::SSL").

Once that's installed, change your IMAP session code to something like this:
  my $imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new(
                                   Socket   => IO::Socket::SSL->new
                                        ( Proto => 'tcp',
                                          SSL_verify_mod => 0x00,
                                          PeerAddr => $imapHost,
                                          PeerPort => '993',
                                        ),
                                   User     => $imapUser,
                                   Password => $imapPass,
                                   UID      => 1,
                                   Clear    => 1, # no buffering
                                  )
    or die "imap2soap: Cannot connect to $imapHost as $imapUser: $@ \n";
}

Then here's the big gotcha: imap.gmail.com seems to be only an MX record (no A record) and Mail::IMAPClient seems to want to resolve via the A record which doesn't exist.  So in your imap2soap.conf file, set your $imapHost = 'gmail-imap.l.google.com';.

Most of the errors in this thread weren't the same errors I was getting, but this should at least help those who have SOAP part working and just need the Google Apps/IMAP part.

-Jeremiah 

jalama, here's my line from imap2soap.conf:

 $inBox = 'INBOX';

Both my gmail and google apps accounts have this. Possibly you left off the semicolon?

jalama,

I think that's what I was getting before I changed "$imapHost = 'gmail-imap.l.google.com';" and was trying to use imap.google.com initially.

Also make sure you have IMAP enabled in the preferences for the account.